Wow Smith's snare sounds amazing! @1:46 was THE moment that changedeverything for me...LA Coliseum, Journey on one of those all day billsand The Babys were on that gig (Jon Cain) got friendly...when Smith went into his blasts at 1:46 I never heard anything like this before...STUNNED...friends all dropped our jaws in awe! WHO WAS THIS GUY??? What JUST happened? Went home and my sister babysat for some guy who worked for Warner Records...would bring records home...what do I see, Enigmatic Ocean with the same drummerof Journey...no clue what he was doing but I was hooked on music outside of rockafter that. Smith has so much control and musicality...he was above the frayfrom all other drummers in his day playing in a rock band. Like watching aCheetah run wild along the safari...

Thie first time I heard this, I had no idea what was going on. I thought when Larrie Londin said Steve Smith was a double bass monster, I wasn't quite sure about that, I had only heard the hits. The really was like putting Jean-Luc Ponty's drummer in a pop-rock band.